10/01/2006

I couldn't decide how best to humiliate myself. Should I go with the bad haircut, food stain at the corner of my mouth and what looks like a pyjama top? The guy on the shirt says it all. I think I was about 8 or 9 here.

Or should I opt for the utter lack of a haircut and prisoner Tee? The way the scenery in the backdrop runs out at the bottom is breathtaking. Is this what Jack Johnson meant when he sang The Horizon Has Been Defeated? Oh to never be 12 again! I am so glad I grew up!

Okay, hit me with your best shot. I can't wait to see the rest of you lovelies as Beth links you all up.

57 comments:

Awww, you look like a medieval page in that second one. Shouldn't you be wearking a jerkin and running after some knight to whom you've been pledged...evading the squirmy fingers of some lord with dark and perverse desires?

I can't really see a food stain in the first picture. Nor can I make much of the cartoon character on your shirt - looks like a dog - maybe Huckleberry Hound? In any event, cute pic.

Don't take this the wrong way, but your 12 year old pic looks vaguely like the kid from Ma Vie en Rose - or possibly Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird. Those 70s kid haircuts were just a little too unisex to know what the hell was going on.

I feel so dirty now after your comments Monkey. I was always a good runner though! :-)

Hawt in that just about to turn kind of way Beth. Love your photo, you are a Junior Miss Minx.

CP - there's a marmalade looking stain at the corner of my mouth and it's Goofy on my shirt. I can't take anything the wrong way. I hadn't quite hit my stoner years and I'll have to look up the kid from La Vie En Rose. Scout, I do know and yes, the whole unisex thing was way overboard. One of my sisters finally took me to a barber and got them to set me right on the hair thing. I never looked back.

I considered posting a more recent photo just so these wouldn't scar anyone. I still shudder.

No, you are Lee! Your photo was adorable.

How do you know I'm not Jin? I'm thinking of calling it Jintrinsique. Cake is already taken.

1. Have you still got that shirt in the second photo? It's hot and I want it.

2. I watched C.R.A.Z.Y today in my immensely hungover state. It made me cry. And laugh. And cry again. I have now decided to exchange both my Australian and British passports for one of the Canadian variety.

3. My mother doesn't have a scanner so couldn't email one of my childhood photos. So I guess I'm being beaten up after school today?

Oh God, Dale! You are so adorable in these pictures! I think I prefer the second one which has a little of the punk rock/Sex Pistols vibe to it! All you need is a bit more snarl and a safety pin through the nose.

What I want to know, Dale, since you and I are the same age, is this: were you one of those boys whose sincere grin, produced here for the camera, only smiled that way when no photographer was around IF he was tormenting some nice little girl with an even goofier haircut AND an outfit (that's right: there were pants to match this top) of prison stripes--except in red and purple?

Those pictures are stellar compared to the one that hangs in my parents hallway to this very day! They paid some photographer 100 bucks or something to sit me don't and capture, for eternity, the ugliest image of myself ever.

You're such a good liar Mel, only one of the many reasons to love you.

Glad you enjoyed Slaygirl. It was fun and frightening all at once.

Well Marni, what can I say Marni? Although I can't do a believable Connery accent Marni, pretend that I can. Okay Marni?

I think I was a nice boy for the most part Holly, a bit sarcastic but generally quiet through school. I'd have to consult other sources maybe for an evaluation. I didn't enjoy school much and felt awkward socially.

ha, ha, Dale.... I was the kid, who showed up to school in a dress I made out of a plastic bag, or in a killer blonde wig that I shoplifted, or in roller skates, tube top and electric blue hot pants, cuz I saw it on a Gap Band video.... I was quite the little drama queen...

Hey Katy, I wondered if you'd make it back and sift through all the comments and photos. It was fun. Better late than never is a good policy, it relates to the picture fun and to the way we all blossomed later, haha.